For the NYC crowd, there's a spot very much like this in Williamsburg: www.nitehawkcinema.com
Food is quite good, service is impeccable. It's a more intimate affair, only two people per booth - and there's only 30 or so seats per house. They do drink & entree specials themed with the films, which is pretty cool I guess. They helped get state law changed in order to serve cocktails and beer in the actual house.
In-between the featured presentations is curated from local (often quite good) film artists.
Sure, we need more of these around. I'm just happy there's a place like this that fits the bill right in my neighborhood. It's more of a cafe than a coffee shop, but that didn't stop the owner from putting dual power plugs in between every couple of seats at the bar. And getting a darn fast wifi connection.
That they make some of the best drip coffee in the area, and serve brunch 7 days a week, combined with affordable prices...
The owner has a coffee shop too, but it's too cramped to work in all day. He recognized that people were starting to try to do that there - and kept it in mind when he opened up this cafe. During a typical weekday, the bar is filled with people with laptops open.
I don't know to where OP is referring, but I've found Table 12 on Ave A & 12th to be a decent place to work. When I've gone during the day on weekdays it's usually half-empty, has free wifi, and the staff hasn't seemed to mind my loitering (though I do buy stuff).
It's kind of crazy. I know that my battle.net account is more secure than a lot of people's online banking credentials: not only do I need a user name and password to access my bnet account, but my account is linked with a mobile app that gives me time-sensitive one-time-use 8-10 security code.
Recently I had to wipe my phone without being able to get the serial number information from the bnet app. It was kind of a pain, but I had to actually scan and send in an image of my drivers license for them to release the old authenticator from my account so I could attach a new one.
Think about that. An online gaming company is more secure about account authorization than a lot of banks are.
The law doesn't care about their game's fictional currency. They have more incentive to protect it than a bank has to keep real money as secure as possible.
Blizzard pays support costs when player's accounts get hacked and are motivated to keep the players as happy paying customers.
Many banks seem to regard deposit holders as merely some kind of annoying obligation necessary to participate in FDIC programs (and occasionally as a source of absurd fees).
See my comment. This is all in the above-and-beyond category. HOWEVER note that the profits Blizzard is seeing from battle.net may be more than the profits of that entire bank. They have more clients, need a reputation, and are in fierce competition. That bank may not be.
It is overall saddening that Blizzard, a game company, protects user data better than a bank. HOWEVER note that this happened in 2009. I doubt Blizzard was this secure back then. Also iPhone and Android were not as big then as they are today, and they were more up-and-coming than anything.
This is a tad off topic, but the iPhone authenticator was added early in 2009 (see: http://wow.joystiq.com/2009/04/03/battle-net-mobile-authenti...) and the hardware fob was already in use well before that, with the same stringent identity verification methods in place in case the authenticator was lost.
Blizzard offers the best of both worlds in my opinion: the authenticator is cheap/free and optional so you can choose how secure you want your account to be. Though, as noted, it's expensive for Blizzard to restore all the hacked accounts so they have incentives (free Corehound pet, for example) if you opt-in to have an authenticator on your account.
Chase is similar. Username and password, and to login from a new device (web, iphone app, etc) requires putting in a time-sensitive code sent to your phone by SMS or email. An actual dedicated mobile app is somewhat a bad design since many people do not have smart phones and it makes it client dependent vs. account dependent.
This happens when you listen to and then improperly handle keyboard events.
Somebody probably just copied a script from w3schools and smashed their face into it for a few hours until it did some approximation of what they might have maybe wanted it to do.
Unfortunately, the buckshot approach to software development leaves a lot to be desired. Especially when you start with such a horrible original product as w3schools.
These are fairly professional sites, though, run by otherwise decent designers and programmers. I think it's more that they adopted an incomplete jQuery plugin, and didn't fully consider the repercussions of changing standard browser controls. That's happened a lot in the past few years... people customize select menus, checkboxes, etc. that are customized (mainly in appearance) with javascript and CSS, and then lost a lot of the native functionality. It produces problems that are reminiscent of why people turned on Flash sites... hopefully the progress of HTML 5 and CSS3 will help this situation, by providing a standard way to do things that have need custom hacks in the past.
Are there any decent alternatives to w3schools? I have to introduce somebody to very basic web-development and would hate to have to point them to a resource as bad as w3schools.
Indeed. Spending more per prisoner than per student (even when you divide by three, considering students spend ~8 hours a day at school) strikes me as pretty backward. When you spend money, you're investing it. So Michigan is investing nearly twice as much money per prisoner ((40k / 3) / 7k).
Which is a better investment: keeping bad people out of society /now/, or educating the future generations to keep them from being a bad person? I won't argue that the first one shouldn't happen. But should we really be investing more in the short term than in the long term? Especially when the only benefits in the short term are a society that feels (and might be) safer along with enriched privately run prisons and their employees, and along the long term is a sustainable and expanding economy based on, you know, not imprisoning people.
They also spend roughly half the year at school (remember weekends, holidays, summer), so you should divide by six.
So, you're now at less per prisoner than per child.
Not that this strikes me as a valid comparison; makes more sense to me that the cost of each should be compared to its own benefits, and to the costs of additional taxation.
The TinEye search didn't succeed in capturing FunnyJunk. Assuming The Oatmeal's artwork is still up on FunnyJunk, this implementation wouldn't work, but it's a clever idea.
Food is quite good, service is impeccable. It's a more intimate affair, only two people per booth - and there's only 30 or so seats per house. They do drink & entree specials themed with the films, which is pretty cool I guess. They helped get state law changed in order to serve cocktails and beer in the actual house.
In-between the featured presentations is curated from local (often quite good) film artists.